"If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh."
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"There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self."
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"Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial."
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"Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man."
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"I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person."
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"While we wait for life, life passes"
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"No one is laughable who laughs at himself."
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"Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions."
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"Forgive that you may be forgiven."
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"Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment."
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"When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people."
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"True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model."
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"Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man."
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"Do everything as in the eye of another."
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"The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."
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"So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments."
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"Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death."
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"Praise thyself never."
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"You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear."
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"Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward."
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